IVOA Interoperability Meeting

Beijing, China, 14-18 May 2007

Data Access Layer Sessions

Schedule

• Opening Plenary summation/goals

DAL-1 - Monday afternoon 16:00-17:30

• Doug Tody - SSA Protocol Update (pdf)
• Doug Tody - getCapabilities Proposal and Issues (pdf)
• Ray Plante - Defining VO Extensions for DAL Protocols

DAL-1b (ad hoc follow-on meeting) - Monday 18:40-19:45

• Discussion of getCapabilities, Registry/DAL integration
• minutes (.txt)

DAL-2/DM-2 (Joint session) - Tuesday Morning 10:30-12:00

• Jesus Salgado, Pedro Osuna - SLAP Update and Plans (ppt)
• Jonathan McDowell - Spectrum Data Model
• All - Discussion on taking SSAP, Spectrum to PR

DAL-3/VOQL-3 (Joint Session) - Wednesday Morning 10:30-12:00

• Pedro Osuna - TAP Introduction
• Doug Tody - DAL Perspective (ppt)
• Aurelien Stebe - VOQL Perspective

DAL-4/VOQL-4 (Joint Session) - Thursday Morning 10:30-12:00

• Kona Andrews (or rep) - Asynchronicity in TAP
• Francois Ochsenbein - Database/Table Metadata (pdf)
• All - discussion of TAP

DAL-5 - Thursday Afternoon 16:00-17:30

• Chao Lui - DAL Implementations in China-VO (Moved to AstroRG session)
• SIA V2 Introduction
• Francois Bonnarel - SIA V2 requirements at CDS
• Markus Dolensky - SIA V2 requirements at ESO (pdf)
• Doug Tody - SIA V2 key issues, general discussion (ppt)
• Conclusion

Anyone giving a presentation or discussing a specification should attach their documents to this page.

Recent versions of the SSA protocol and data model documents can be found here, along with some related materials (e.g., the data model spreadsheet).

The Simple Cone Search protocol is now a Preliminary Recommendation and is in the final stages of the RFC process.